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A police officer walks through the crime scene on Elarton Court in Brooklyn following a mass shooting on July 2.
18-year-old charged in connection with Brooklyn Homes mass shooting
Court records show Tristan Jackson was linked to the shooting in part through GPS monitoring for a prior offense.
Baltimore Police patrol the Brooklyn Homes area on July 3.
911 calls for Brooklyn Homes shooting reveal extended terror
The city released a handful of 911 calls from the shooting that killed two people at a Brooklyn Homes party and injured 28 others.
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Former CEO of Strong City Baltimore facing federal indictment related to CARES Act fraud
Reginald Davis was arrested on wire fraud and money laundering charges. He made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court, pleading not guilty.
Christopher Bendann, right, and his attorney Kobie Flowers speak following a hearing Tuesday in which a judge set a new trial date for the ex-Gilman School teacher who is charged with sexually abusing a student.
With sex abuse trial date set, ex-Gilman School teacher speaks out
A Baltimore County judge set a Dec. 14 trial date for Christopher Bendann, who is charged with with sexually abusing a student.
Shantay Jackson, then the outgoing director of MONSE, sent text messages to then-Police Commissioner Michael Harrison during the Police Department’s consequential City Council budget hearing on June 6, which led to his abrupt departure two days later. “Time to get rid of Barksdale,” she wrote.
‘Time to get rid of’ deputy mayor Barksdale, one public safety leader texted another
Texts messages obtained through a public records request reveal communications between officials during key City Council budget hearing.
The Baltimore Banner obtained more than 100 pages of records from the internal investigative file on an incident in which a Capitol Police officer fired two Taser prongs into a boy.
Capitol Police finally release information on youth Taser incident, though redactions abound
The Baltimore Banner obtained more than 100 pages from the internal investigative file, including the officer’s claim that he used a Taser on the boy by accident.
(left) A historical picture of Gerry Koob; (right) Gerry Koob, as featured in the Netflix documentary "The Keepers"
Women say ‘Keepers’ figure was unnamed rapist in Catholic abuse report
Their stories were in the massive report on sex abuse in Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese, but a key detail was missing: the name of one of the men who they say raped them.
FBI Director Christopher Wray, second from left, visited the bureau’s Baltimore field office to meet with local law enforcement partners and receive updates on cases. At right, Acting Anne Arundel County Police Chief Katherine Roberts and Acting Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley.
FBI Director Christopher Wray: No timetable on Roy McGrath shooting investigation
FBI Director Christopher Wray said he gets briefed when an investigation is close to wrapping up, and had not been given such a briefing.
Attorney Kenneth Ravenell in an undated picture.
Federal appellate court denies convicted attorney Kenneth Ravenell a second shot at appeal
Prominent attorney Kenneth Ravenell will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after an appellate court declined to take up his money laundering conviction
Illustrations of former police commissioner Michael Harrison.
The Michael Harrison chess picture was just the beginning. See the other AI-created memes.
The meme was posted to Instagram by Harrison’s wife, just days after his abrupt exit from the Baltimore Police Department.
From left, former Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, Mayor Brandon Scott and Acting Commissioner Richard Worley sit down for an interview with The Baltimore Banner and its media partner, WJZ-TV at City Hall on July 12, 2023. (Kaitlin Newman/The Baltimore Banner)
A whirlwind 36 hours: Behind the leadership change at the Baltimore Police Department
In an interview, former Commissioner Michael Harrison, Mayor Brandon Scott and Acting Commissioner Richard Worley provide new details about the events leading to the transfer of power.
A crouching officer wearing gloves holds a bullet near a yellow evidence marker with the number 13.
Casings from ‘more than a dozen’ guns found at Brooklyn Homes mass shooting scene
Two people were killed in the shooting that broke out around 12:35 a.m. Sunday, and the wounded ranged from age 13 to 32.
Promotional image for The Keepers on Netflix
FBI to exhume body of Joyce Malecki, whose death was chronicled in ‘The Keepers,’ family says
Investigators have long searched for a link between the killings of Malecki and Sister Cathy Cesnik, a teacher at Archbishop Keough High School.
Maryland, Baltimore City, Baltimore County politics
Political notes: Sneed considering comeback; court chides Cox; Alsobrooks endorsements
Baltimore residents have seen a pollapalooza in the City Council president race.
Portrait of Marilyn Mosby at the Baltimore City State's Attorney Office.
Marilyn Mosby’s new legal team revives attempt to change venue of her federal trial
Mosby’s attorneys cite a poll that showed negative attitudes toward the former city state's attorney in the Baltimore region.
A gap between homes in the 200 block of S. Stricker St. marks the spot where a vacant home burned and collapsed, killing three Baltimore firefighters.
Man indicted for Carrollton Ridge burglaries; fallen firefighters’ families notified
Attorneys for the families of the fallen firefighters said investigators have kept them informed about the investigation and that they were told of the burglary charges.
A group of Marylanders tried to send an arsenal to help the war in their native Cameroon; now they’re going to prison.
Marylanders tried to send an arsenal to help the war in their native Cameroon; now they’re going to prison
Consulting over encrypted chats and meeting in the basement of a home in Rosedale, they worked to assemble an arsenal to ship back home through the Port of Baltimore in order to help arm their side of the conflict.
Keith Davis Jr. is seen in this undated photo. He has put those Baltimore Police Department and former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby on notice that he intends to sue them.
Keith Davis Jr. intends to sue Baltimore Police, ex-State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, notice says
Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates earlier this year dropped charges of second-degree murder and use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence against Davis, 31, who has always maintained his innocence.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison to step down
City won’t say when Michael Harrison submitted resignation as police commissioner
Little has been disclosed about the lead-up to Harrison’s abrupt departure.
Former President Donald Trump listens as he speaks with reporters while in flight on his plane after a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, in Waco, Texas, Saturday, March 25, 2023, while en route to West Palm Beach, Fla.
Trump’s attorney with Baltimore firm figures prominently in obstruction of justice charges
President Donald Trump's attorney M. Evan Corcoran is a former federal prosecutor and joined Silverman Thompson in March 2021 after almost four years as managing director of a global investment company.
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